Download or read book Configurational Mechanics written by V.K. Kalpakides and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2004-02-01 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book comprises papers that were presented at the Symposium on Configurational Mechanics, during the 5th EUROMECH Soil Mechanics Conference in Thessaloniki in August 2003. Configurational (or material) mechanics -in contrast to Newtonian mechanics in Euclidean space- concerns any sort of change or "motion" in the material configuration. This fr